Machine for packing cigarettes.



Patented Mar.12, 1918.

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E. JAGENBERG.

MACHINE FOR PACKING CIGARETTES. APPLICATION FILED 056.10, 1915.

Patented Mar. 12, 191&

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E. JAGENBERG.

MACHINE FOR'PACKING CIG'ARETTES. APPLICATION FILED DEC. 10. I915.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

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MACHINE FOR PACKING GIGARETTES. APPLICAIION FILED mac 10. 1915.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC. 10. I915- 1358,3775. Patented Mal-.12, 1m

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' 6 remain on the folded down ends of the EMIL JAGENBERG, 0F DUSSELDORF, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR PACKING CIGARETTES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

Application filed December 10, 1915. Serial No. 66,177.

new and useful Improvements in Machines for Packing Cigarettes, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to machines, by which a given number of cigarettes are covered with a wrapper and, with the latter, are inserted into outer casings. It is the object of the present invention to insure a regular operation of the machine and a per- 7 feet packing of the cigarettes.

In the accompanying drawing the machine is shown, in Figure 1, in plan view, whereas the Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 show various sectional views. Fig. 6 is a plan of the right hand end of the machine.

The comparatively stifl wrapping paper, which, as usual, is taken from a roll and is automatically out off, is, during its advance, provided with sharp kinks or folds by means of sharp-edged disks, in order that these folds should facilitate the exact folding over of the wrapper at the corners. The severed strip 1 is moved by means of reciprocating fingers 2 beneath a forming core 3 of a rectangular section, and thereupon pressed against the said core by means of a slide 4, while noses 5 on the said slide fold the ends of the strip upward, so that they project beyond the upper edge of the core. Thereupon two rocking slides 6 move from outside against the ends of the strip and fold these down onto the upper side of the core. The strip of paper-which has beenthus folded around the core, is then advanced by means of noses7 moving in slots 8 in the core and attached to bars 9 connected to each other,

to the point where it is filled with cigarettes. During this displacement the rocking slides strip of paper, so that these cannot rise from the core. To the bars 9 is also attached a thin plate 10, the edge of which lying transversely to the direction of travel contacts with the strip of paper 1. The cigarettes to be filled into the wrapper glide onto this plate 10 through a gutter 11 from a hopper 12, inwhich, at its bottom, cells are provided corresponding in width and length to the cigarettes. The walls .of these cells consist of vertically ,"reciprocatable slides 13 which are alternately. and successively lifted contrary to the actionof springsl 'l by means of eccentrics or earns 15 or the like, whereby the clgarettes are well alined and introduced nto the cells, thereupon uniformly delivered 1nto the gutter and all stoppages are avoided.

a gate 16 by means of which the supply of cigarettes may be cut off, when the number desired has been delivered from the hopper. With the constructional form of the machine exemplified in the accompanying drawing four cigarettes are introduced into each wrapper. These four cigarettes lie on the plate 10 between the core and the slide'16,

and the folded up strip of paper 1 is pushed over them by means of the noses 7. The plate 10 will, during this operation, slide backward along the bottom of the ciragettes and remains in permanent contact with the front edge of the strip of paper 1, so that the cigarettes enter the folded up wrapper without any jar, and all damage to the cigarette sleeves is avoided.

- The wrapper 1 filled in such a manner is introduced into the covering casing 17 by means of a gutter 18 and a plunger 19, which will abut once against the cigarettes and thereby aline these before the wrapper is pushed over them. In order that they should require as little space as possible before being filled, the casings are'so collapsed that they form fiat bodies. The sides are, therefore, in a horizontal position and the top is displaced relatively to the bottom. The casing must, therefore, before it can be filled, receive its proper shape. This is performed by a slide'20, which at its front end is provided with a hinged rockingplate 22, held down by a spring, which plate, on meeting the edge ofthecasing 17 hearing against At the lower end of the gutter is provided a rigid abutment35, will rise slightly, and

thereby facilitate the erection of the said.

casing. The casing is then pushed by means of a slide 24 moving in a path at'right angles 1 v to slide 20 into a disk 25, which for this pur-' pose is provided withja plurality of chambers 26 corresponding in shape to the casings 17. The wrapper 1 filled with cigarettes is now pushed by the plunger 19 through a funnel' shaped, slightly elastic mouthpiece 21 into the lowermost casing in the chamber 26,

the said casing slightly advancing over the narrowest part of the mouthpiece. During this operation a flat spring 27 attached to the plunger 19 strikes with its front end against the outside casing and pushes the latter so far back, that its edge is flush with the wrapper introduced into it. During' the reciprocating movement the flat spring glides on a stationary guide bar 36, and lowers its front end or striking against the edge of the casing 17 only shortly before it has completed its forward stroke. After the plunger 19 has receded the disk 25 revolves until the next chamber 26 registers with it. During the period, while the disk 25 is at a standstill, the filled casing which now faces an ejector gutter 28 is ejected from the chamber 26 by means of a plunger 29.

The lower edge of the hopper 12 may, also, be at the same level With the plate 10, onto Which the cigarettes are directly fed by a slide.

I claim:

1. Machine for packing cigarettes in a folded strip of paper and a paper casing surrounding the latter comprising a core, means for folding said strip of paper around said core, a plate adapted to receive the cigarettes from a hopper, means for pushing the folded up strip of paper over the cigarettes on said plate, said plate contacting with its edge with said strip of paper and adapted to travel simultaneously therewith, and means for pushing said strip of paper with the cigarettes therein into a paper casing.

2. In a machine for packing cigarettes in a folded strip of paper and a paper casing surrounding the latter, a core, means for folding the strip of paper from below around the sides of said core, rocking slides meagre adapted to fold down the ends of said strip of paper projecting upward, against the top of said core, said rocking slides operated in t such a manner that they hold down said ends ing-chambers adapted to receive the paper casings, means for revolving said disk so as to bring each casin to register with a plunger, said plunger eing provided with a flat spring guided on a stationary bar, and said spring adapted to abut against the casing projecting slightly from its disk when the strip of paper with the cigarettes therein is being pushed into the casing, to aline the casing with the filled strip inserted into it.

4. In a machine for packing cigarettes in a folded strip of paper and a paper casing surrounding the latter, a hopper for feeding the cigarettes to be packed, vertically reciprocable slides at the bottom of said hopper, forming cells, and means for reciproeating said slides successively.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMIL J AGENBERG. Witnesses:

HELEN NUFER, ALBERT NUFER. 

